{"id":416306,"date":"2026-01-16T06:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416306\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T06:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:39:19","slug":"3-trade-targets-for-every-nba-team-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416306\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Trade Targets for Every NBA Team In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are approaching an annual rite of passage: The Philadelphia 76ers’ ritual midseason salary dump. Just $7 million separate the team<\/a> from skirting the tax. If they don’t trim that much from the bottom line by offloading Kelly Oubre Jr. or Andre Drummond-plus-Mystery-Salary-X, count me shocked.<\/p>\n

Previous iterations of the Sixers’ big board had them chasing pricier targets<\/a>. This one operates under the assumption they will conveniently slither beneath the tax<\/a> while trying to limit the damage to their underlying on-court production.<\/p>\n

Keon Ellis is on the books for $2.3 million, hits threes, can defend, and most importantly of all, plays for a team physically incapable of winning trades. In a perfect world, he’d be a few inches taller. But having him, VJ Edgecombe and Quentin Grimes gives Philly a who’s who of not-huge-guards who can try pestering properly sized wings.<\/p>\n

Searching for a big rings slightly hollow when the Sixers have Drummond, Joel Embiid, Adem Bona and even Dominick Barlow. Jay Huff is cheap enough ($2.3 million) for Philly to sniff around his floor-spacing-rim-protector outlines. Especially if Drummond becomes tax-ducking collateral damage.<\/p>\n

Tari Eason remains an agent of defensive chaos when healthy. He is pure anarchy when his threes are falling. Philly should not go all-out to get him, but injuries, next summer’s foray into restricted free agency and the Houston Rockets’ proximity to ducking the tax<\/a> could pave the way for a more reasonable price tag if a third (and potentially fourth) team gets involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are approaching an annual rite of passage: The Philadelphia 76ers’ ritual midseason salary dump. Just $7 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-416306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}